The U.S President complained that the EU's 'barriers' - such as standards that ban hormone-injected beef and chlorinated chicken - are 'unfair' on US farmers

Matt Dathan, Political Correspondent

13th March 2018, 1:36 am

Updated: 13th March 2018, 1:37 am

DONALD Trump warned Britain and the EU to let in American chlorinated chicken and slash extortionate tariffs on US cars and food or face crippling export taxes themselves.

The President said his Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will speak to his European counterparts about “eliminating the large tariffs and barriers they use against the USA”.

U.S President Donald Trump wants the EU's 'large Tariffs and Barriers' cut for US producers

He branded the 10 per cent tax on US car imports and 200 per cent tariff on food such as garlic “not fair to our farmers and manufacturers”.

Mr Trump has blamed Germany and France for imposing high EU tariffs on American cars to protect their own manufacturers.

But an EU Commission spokesman rebutted the US President by pointing out that the US charges similar tariffs on EU imports - including 25 per cent taxes on trucks, 49 per cent on shoes, 12 per cent on textiles and 164 per cent on peanuts.

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Brussels bans these products for sale in Europe because they breach EU rules on animal welfare.

Mr Trump escalated the trade war with the EU after he accused the EU at the weekend of abusing the US economically - branding the bloc “wonderful countries who treat the US very badly on trade”.

Returning to Twitter yesterday, Mr Trump wrote: “Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross will be speaking with representatives of the European Union about eliminating the large Tariffs and Barriers they use against the U.S.A. Not fair to our farmers and manufacturers.”

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